Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch (born 1983) was born and raised in Valencia, Spain, where he attended Universitat de Valencia for a six-year BSc+MSc degree in theoretical physics. During his studies, he became fascinated by several physical fields. One of these fields, which he later continued studying during his PhD, was quantum optics. Carlos completed his PhD degree in 2011 under the joint supervision of Eugenio Roldan and German J de Valcarcel, in the quantum and nonlinear optics group of the Universitat de Valencia, focusing on the quantum properties of multi-mode optical parametric oscillators...